“When Will We Have a Vaccine?” — Understanding Questions and Answers about Covid-19 Vaccination

Strategies of vaccine production against COVID-19: when will an effective vaccine be produced?

There is a strong consensus globally that production of an effective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 is likely the most effective approach to sustainably controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. An unprecedented research effort and global coordination has resulted in a rapid development of vaccine candidates and initiation of trials. In this paper, we review vaccine candidate against COVID-19 and also cha...

The Predictive Role of Vaccine Literacy and Vaccine Hesitancy on Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccination

Background: Vaccination is preventive behavior, and vaccine literacy and hesitancy appear to influence vaccination. The aim of this study was to determine the role of vaccine literacy and hesitancy on the acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 2185 residents over 18 years old in urban and rural health centers in three cities of Dashtestan, Dash...

Questions and Answers about BSP

Will we have enough physicians? One of life's "unanswerable" questions.

What appears to be clear is that past studies and projections have produced highly variable and frequently contradictory responses and that past projections have sometimes not even been directionally correct. For example, in the 1970s there was concern that the United States was facing an imminent shortage of physicians. This led to a push to expand the number of both medical schools and studen...

Vaccination and anesthesia: more questions than answers.

SIR––We found the survey by Short et al. in the May 2006 issue of Pediatric Anesthesia (1) very interesting and believe it opened some theoretical ‘food for thought’ about the perioperative behavior of the immunized child. However the authors conclusions and recommendations that elective surgery should be postponed for one week after killed vaccine and for three weeks after live-attenuated vacc...